Ravai Fatiaki
Date of birth | 1 March 1987 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Nausori, Fiji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 102 kg (16.1 st; 225 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
School | Lelean Memorial School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Farmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ravai Fatiaki (born 1 March 1987) is a Fijian rugby union player who plays for Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby. He made his international debut for Fiji in 2009 against Japan.
He plays as a centre or fly-half.
Along with Iliesa Keresoni, Fatiaki was a member of the 2006 Lelean Memorial School Under 19 Dream Team that won the Fiji Secondary Schools' Rugby Union championship Deans Trophy.[citation needed]
Fatiaki was a member of the Fiji squad for the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.[citation needed]
Ravai is the younger brother of Fred Fatiaki, who coached the current Assistant Minister for Youth and Sports, Iliesa Delana to a first Gold medal win for Fiji and the Pacific at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.[citation needed]
Fatiaki has since joined the British Army playing professional Rugby for the Army and appeared in the starting line up of the 2017 Army v Navy.[citation needed] On 9 November 2017 Fatiaki was named on the bench for Leicester Tigers in their Anglo-Welsh Cup game against Bath.[2]
References
- ^ "FijiRugby.com - Ravai Fatiaki". web page. Fiji Rugby Union. Retrieved 25 September 2011.
- ^ "Leicester Tigers give senior debuts to three academy graduates". 9 November 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
External links
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Worcester Warriors players
- Fijian rugby union players
- Rugby union centres
- Rugby union fly-halves
- Fiji international rugby union players
- People educated at Lelean Memorial School
- Fijian people of Rotuman descent
- Fijian expatriate rugby union players
- Expatriate rugby union players in England
- Fijian expatriate sportspeople in England
- People from Nausori
- Leicester Tigers players